Most of the rejoinders I received on the two serials preceding this one have demanded that I provide a trajectory of “how to do reform guide” that would be a logical conclusion to my historical analysis of the civil service in Nigeria and tribute to its founding patriarchs. This is not difficult since, one, I have written four books and published many articles on the reform ecology and praxis in Nigeria and beyond; and two, I have equally been involved in reform strategy/ programmes design and implementation in the last two decades. What follows therefore will serve as an effort at popularising some of the ideas and thoughts in my previous scholarly and administrative outputs on the idea of reforming the Nigerian civil service.

Why Do Reforms Fail? A Civil Service Reform Trajectory for Nigeria

ACTING Chief Economist for African Development Bank, Prof Steve Kayizzi Mugerwa has said that Nigeria and other African countries should address the high rate of youth unemployment by moving from agrarian to industry-based economies to foster job creation and poverty alleviation.



Nigeria, others should move from agrarian to industrial-based economies

India’s economy is poised for take-off. GDP is on the rise. Inflation is the lowest in decades.

The Myth of the Middle Class in India – A new report from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth offers a data-driven view of how Indian households live, work, earn and save.

Mobilizing sufficient financing remains a major challenge in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite signs of progress, investments that are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Financing Sustainable Development Report 2019

First published in bloomberg.com By Chris Kay and Emele Onu Dec 4, 2014 10:26 AM GMT+0100; Photograph by: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg

On Nov. 16, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had cut the benchmark price to $73 a barrel for 2015, down 5.8 percent from this year’s budget.

Nigeria lowered its budgeted oil price for a second time in less than a month, signaling government revenue is set to plunge in Africa’s biggest crude producer.

Nigeria Signals Revenue to Plunge as Benchmark Oil Price Cut

Interview with Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict –  Sexual violence is being used as a “tactic of terror” to target religious and ethnic minorities and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, according to Zainab Hawa Bangura, the United Nations official dealing with the issue.

Zainab Hawa Bangura on Sexual Violence in Conflict

Power generation drops to record 1,580MW in Nigeria – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) yesterday confirmed that the power generation level has dropped to an all-time low of 1,580 Mega Watts (MW), thereby dampening hopes of early resolution of the nation’s power supply crisis.

Power generation drops to record 1,580MW in Nigeria

FG, IOCs, banks in talks over $4bn debt  —  Nigeria is in talks with oil majo rs and banks to raise capital for new drilling and to repay up to $4bn in debt that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has accumulated over years of mismanagement.

FG, IOCs, banks in talks over $4bn debt

COVID-19 pandemic has paused the routine life, while generating deep concerns about the future of the communities in developing countries, especially their immediate living conditions

International Seminar on Africa’s Spiritual Response to Human Suffering: Nigeria and COVID-19

Xenophobia in plain words means “fear of foreign” people, place or things. In the case of South Africa, it is the fear of black foreigners.

SOUTH AFRICANS’ MISPLACED FEAR

In African culture and spiritual life, the conception of togetherness has grounded a categorical responsibility for caring for the community, addressing its needs, and safeguarding its communal essence.

International Seminar on Africa’s Ethics of Care Facing COVID-19

Nigeria’s ex-defence chief raided staff salary funds – Nigeria’s former chief of defence staff bought property including a $5.5 million mansion with air force money, passing off his fraudulent withdrawals as staff salaries, a court heard Wednesday.

Retired air chief marshal Alex Badeh is on trial at a federal high court in Abuja, accused of diverting 3.97 billion naira ($19.8 million, 18 million euros) for his own use.

Nigeria’s ex-defence chief raided staff salary funds

Foreign Investors Dump Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for Nairobi, Johannesburg Exchanges  By Eromosele Abiodun – The expectations that Nigerian equities market will rebound soon may be dashed as some of the foreign investors, who left the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) are taking advantage of opportunities in Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Foreign Investors Dump Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)

UN experts urge Nigeria to make areas freed from Boko Haram ‘truly safe’ for returnees – United Nations human rights experts have urged the Nigerian Government to ensure that the areas they claim to have liberated from Boko Haram forces are truly safe for the displaced persons to return.

Areas freed from Boko Haram ‘truly safe’ for returnees

Mind the Gap: Here’s How You Take on a Power Crisis the Size of a Continent – By Mark Egan and Tomas Kellner



How You Take on a Power Crisis the Size of a Continent

Significant demand for foreign exchange for payment of school fees, BTA and PTA among others appeared to exert undue pressure on the local currency and have continued to deplete the country’s foreign reserves.



Forex Cut May Make Overseas Education Unattractive

 

Women worldwide pursuing careers in science are only 28%, and just 30% of professionals in the sciences in Sub-Saharan Africa are women.



The future of African women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers

ideo- Climate Change Agreement and Nigeria: Minister – The Nigerian Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed has spoken of Nigeria’s effort to implement the Climante Change Agreement, regardless…………..

She says it is a good development because “we now know what to do regardless of the challenges from the lack of uniform action and acceptance by all countries”.

We will do what we have to do now and work towards the future.

Video- Climate Change Agreement and Nigeria: Minister

40% don’t access education in a language they understand- A new paper by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) reports that 40% of the global population does not access education in a language they understand. The policy paper, ‘If you don’t understand, how can you learn?’ released for International Mother Language Day (21 February), argues that being taught in a language other than their own can negatively impact children’s learning, especially for those living in poverty.



 40% don’t access education in a language they understand

Revelations have emerged on why President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, sacked 27 heads of federal parastatals and agencies. National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, who led the national executive of the governing party to a meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, said the sacked officials were appointees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) involved in acts of sabotage against the present administration.



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